So true! Via smokeandmirrors @ Flickr.
In which sarah.of.a.lesser.god and I discuss our special womantime and sharing it–or not–with our significant others. Sex and the menstruating woman! A “hell yes!” Or a “hell no!” ? Or just a big “meh?” We’ve...

Stepmother =/= Wicked. via cepatri55 @ flickr
I was five years old when I realized everything was going wrong. I don’t remember the words that were hurled from Mom to Dad and back again, but I remember being scared and burying my nose in a book called Henrietta Operator. It was about a platypus...

Via TBDNYC @ Flickr.
When I was 29, I found out I had HPV. My Pap smear tested abnormal and a follow-up test revealed the cause: the human papilloma virus. I’m hardly the first to get the news; at least 50% of sexually active people will get HPV at some point during their lives. It’s nearly always...

It's a BCP cake! Nom nom nom. Via browntown @ Flickr.
Welcome to Harpy Seminar, a regular feature we plan to have at regular intervals, unless we get too busy to have it at regular intervals, in which case it shall appear whenever we have time and inclination for it. Each Seminar begins with a question,...

Via TJBNYC76 @ Flickr.
I was in the mood for love. A year after the breakup from hell, with a few obliging rebound men in the rearview mirror, I decided I needed a new boyfriend. And I wasn’t the type who liked to sit around and wait for them to come to me.
I launched myself back into the dating...

Mother and daughter, via Pomegranates @ Flickr.
When I was nine or ten, I brought my class picture home to my mother and asked, “Who do you think is the prettiest?” “You!” she replied. “I think Maura’s the prettiest. She’s prettier than me.” Mom would...

I’d been dating in New York for ten years. I’d had my misadventures. I knew that into every dating life a little heartbreak must fall. But this time I hit the exacta: I was not only dating an older man, I wound up breaking my heart over a six-year-old girl.
Of course, I fell in love with...

Via Katie Cowden @ Flickr
It has recently been brought to my attention that to some people abstract discussions about feminism are irrelevant, and moreover, unfun. To this I say: you have not known true joy until you have felt the adrenaline generated by a good collection of feminist essays read in...

(insert pork joke here) Via erikrasmussen @ Flickr
Ah yes, that most pleasurable of retro pleasures–hot, hot, man-on-top loving. Let there be no doubt, missionary is not supposed to be the position of the liberated woman.
It’s no coincidence that author and friend of womanity Nancy Friday...

Via TJBNYC76 @ Flickr
To be honest, it was more like May/October. I was 29, he was 47. But that 18 year difference caused a hell of a lot of trouble for this harpy.
I met D. at the “singles” table of a friend’s wedding reception. The hot Brazilian guy to my right turned out be...